Alan Watts

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

This is the real secret of life—to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. It is to be able to use it as an instrument instead of being used by it.